Order of Business

The Golden Age of Fraternity and Its Legacy of Inequality

Pamela Popielarz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2026
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-9425-2 (ISBN)

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Though the industrial revolution pushed Americans into radically new modes of living, working, and organizing, patriarchy and white supremacy survived in the new institutions of the industrial economy. Fraternal orders flourished so spectacularly between the Civil War and World War I that this era—the peak of the industrial revolution—is known as the Golden Age of Fraternity. In this work of historically informed sociology, Pamela Popielarz explores the hidden impact of fraternal orders on systemic inequalities in American business. Most orders welcomed only white men, yet members ranged from capitalist elites to wage workers. Popielarz analyzes the Freemasons and the Knights of Pythias, illuminating who they were, what they aimed to do, and how they adopted novel business practices during the Golden Age. In doing so, she reveals the collective imprint of fraternal orders on business culture and offers new ways to understand contemporary racial and gender inequalities.

Pamela Popielarz is associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.6.2026
Zusatzinfo	22 illustrations - 22 halftones - 22 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	25 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4696-9425-5 / 1469694255
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-9425-2 / 9781469694252
Zustand	Neuware